... SMIS : Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory . Russia's Weather : State Meteorological Center Weather Forecast . Space Weather service : ACE real time solar wind data and simple geomagnetic activity forecast. ... World Fire Web : Space Research Institute (IKI) node . Sputnik : Joint project of SRC Planeta, Rosgidromet and Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Today's Space Weather : Presented by the Space Environment Center . ... Back to the Space Research Institute Home Page ...

... In order to realize the optimal scientific return from the VLT, ESO has undertaken to develop an end-to-end data flow system from proposal entry to science archive. The VLT Data Flow System (DFS) is being designed and implemented by the DFS Group (ESO Internal access only) in collaboration with VLT Division and Instrumentation Division . ... VLT Control System Interface . ... OBs are the quantum of data that flows within the DFS, collecting state, data and status information as they flow. ...

Next: Three-dimensional Data Analysis in IRAF and ZODIAC+ . ... A data analysis system has been developed at SRON, which has been designed to allow rigorous control of the quality of its processed data products. ... This means recording all parameters of all steps which lead to the establishment of the final data products (Figure 1 ). ... Figure: A processing pipeline is a sequence of tasks with several input/output files and parameters, which pass data from one task to the next. ...

... Some of the functions that go into designing a tower have been left for SNEAKERS to handle. ... A connector can only be placed on top of a support. ... The supports are placed on top of each other at various angles. ... The system determines the ideal angle from the end of the last support to the designed top of that leg of the tower. ... The maximum angle allowed is , so that the tower will continue to be designed toward the goal at the top. Connectors are always placed on top of supports. ...

... LAND LAUNCH . ... March 15–29, 2008 . Prelaunch processing of Block DM-SLB №1TL within the Zenit-3SLB ILV. ... April 2–5, 2008 . ... Assembly and nominal processing of Ascent Unit №1L. Nominal prelaunch processing of launch vehicle Zenit-2S №1L within the Zenit-3SLB ILV. ... State Committee accepted a decision on the Zenit-3SLB ILV roll-out to LC for ILV further processing for the Amos-3 SC launch planned for April 24, 2008. ... 1-st launch day. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... 10:00 - 11:00 Juergen Reingruber (ENS de Paris, France) . The search process for small targets in cellular microdomains . ... Statistical models on random lattices . ... 15:00 - 16:00 Vyacheslav Priezzhev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia) . ... Extreme statistics of vicious walkers: from random matrices to Yang-Mills theory . ... Conformal blocks and quantum Hall effect . ... Topological field theories and statistical models . ... Benjamin-Ono integrable systems in 2D CFT . ...

... News . ... International relations . ... Events IX International forum "Optical systems and technologies" . ... 2nd Thematic Scientific Conference - "New developments of optoelectronic and laser systems for aircraft ." ... Optical and opto -electronic devices and systems : methods of designing, manufacturing , testing, research and certification . Computer simulation of optical and opto -electronic systems . ... Computer modeling and design technology of optical and opto -electronic systems ." ...

... HI gas in the Magellanic Clouds, . ... The Australian Academy of Science are supporting the 'Elizabeth and Frederick White conference on the Magellanic System'. ... The Magellanic Clouds as a template for the study of stellar populations and galaxy interaction . Download: pdf . ... Dating Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds . ... The Extended population of the Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Spectral Diagnostics of newly Discovered Planetary Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud . ...

... History-NASA Centers . ... STS Recordation Oral History Project . This effort involved the collection of history from key individuals formerly and currently associated with the agency?s Space Shuttle Program (SSP), focusing on the Space Shuttle Orbiter and its related components. ... Space Shuttle Main Engines Chief Engineer and Project Manager, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL . ... Space Shuttle Main Engines Project Manager, Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL . ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

Next: Important parts of the Up: Overview of a Linux Previous: Overview of a Linux . A UNIX operating system consists of a kernel and some system programs . ... The system programs use the tools provided by the kernel to implement the various services required from an operating system. ... An operating system can also contain compilers and their corresponding libraries (GCC and the C library in particular under Linux), although not all programming languages need be part of the operating system. ...

... I will only talk about the ``System V'' style of init that Linux systems mostly use. ... Typically, the first thing it is told to do is to run an initialisation script. The program that executes (or interprets) this script is bash , the same program that gives you a command prompt. In Debian systems, the initialisation script is /etc/init.d/rcS , on Red Hat, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit . ... But S10syslog is really a link to /etc/init.d/syslog which is a script to start and stop the system logger. ...

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... Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 103907, Russia. ... Proceedings of International Seminar on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, Moscow, Russia, June 16-18, 1992 , vol.1, pp. ... The principles of information processing (storing information, associative memory, image recognition) in nonlinear systems with dynamic chaos are studied. The use of complex dynamic regimes in solving certain information problems is shown advantageous with respect to the methods based on simple dynamics. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... This bizarrely shrunken planetary system was found by NASAтАЩs Kepler mission, hence the parent star has been named Kepler-11. ... Planetary scientist and Kepler science team member Jack Lissauer said ?These six planets are mixtures of rock and gases, possibly including water.тАЭ €аNone of these strange new worlds are likely to be home to any form of life; their surface conditions are simply too extreme. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...

... To avoid extensive numerical calculations in the statistical simulations, we treat the continuous evolution of each binary component as a sequence of a finite number of basic evolutionary states (for example, main sequence, red (super)giant, helium (Wolf-Rayet) star,     hot WD), in which stellar parameters significantly differ from each other. ... Figure 2: Schematic representation of the typical evolutionary track of a massive binary system with normal and compact star stages indicated. ...

... USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ... The Venera 15 and 16 radar (radio) altimeter systems were identical, and were used to determine the topography of the surface of Venus from the north pole down to about 30њN latitude. ...